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Creative Writing: Friday Fiction
In the Friday fiction slot on my blog I post about the novels I’m writing including novel extracts and occasional short stories
After The Rising & Before The Fall: Centenary Edition
I’m reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It’s almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and…
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New Novel Writing Process for IN THE HOUR
I am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I’ve a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish….
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Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution
The story has shifted to 1916. Maud and Iseult are living in Normandy, as the first world war wages and in Dublin, Irish freedom fighters have organized a botched insurrection. Many of their Irish friends and acquaintances were involved. This extract describes what happens when Maud Gonne hears of John MacBride’s Execution for his part.
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The execution of John MacBride: Ireland’s Easter Rebellion 1916
This is a scene reimagining the execution of John MacBride, Maud Gonne’s husband, for his part in the 1916 Rising. His death was to change life for Maud and Iseult forever.
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If you read this speech at the start of a novel, would you read on?
It’s Friday Fiction here on the blog, so I’ll be blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy here with weekly extracts in the Friday Fiction slot.
I’m thinking of opening Dancing With The Wind with one of Maud Gonne’s fiery political speeches.
Question: Would you read on if this was what you found in the first pages of a book?
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Blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy
I have done some shuffling on the fiction front and I’ll be blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy here weekly in the Friday Fiction slot.
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Friday Fiction: Fiction Newsletter September 2019
I just dispatched my Life in Fiction Newsletter September 2019. Are you signed up to receive it? For a long…
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